Tag Archives: Hello Sunshine

Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 8

5 Replies

I think this is a record – here is Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate EIGHT! After reading my usual blogs this morning, which includes Brian King’s, I decided to make a card for the same challenge that he mentioned – Fab Friday and to also add the extra challenge he undertook – use the soft pastels without making a baby card! My Paper Pumpkin February 2016 set was still out on my table and, inspired by Brian, decided to make my own background.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Hello Sunshine

Here’s the banner for the challenge

Using just the one stamp from the Hello Sunshine set, I stamped randomly in the three colours, filling the space but with not too much overlapping. I wanted the image to show, not just create texture. Once I’d completely filled my piece of very vanilla I tried it on all three card bases and mint macaron won. I was just about to stamp the happy birthday in mint macaron too but it was just a bit too predictable and I also remembered that I have enamel dots in mint macaron. So I changed the colour of the sentiment (also from the Paper Pumpkin kit) to use blushing bride and added three of the enamel dots.I then popped up the sentiment with dimensionals.

Of course I have to do something to the envelope, and rather than cutting out an envelope liner, I decided to stamp the flap of the envelope in the same way as the background.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin February 2016 - Hello Sunshine

As with the card background, I stamped off once before stamping onto the envelope flap.

I’m most definitely not short of DSP but it is fun to make your own backgrounds. There are masses of stamps that you could do this kind of thing with if you didn’t get the Paper Pumpkin kit last month.

It’s only 5 days until this month’s cut off for Paper Pumpkin. If you’re signed up by the 10th, you’ll get the March kit, if you sign up after that, you have to wait until April. And since the 3 month prepaid is on sale – and gets you a freebie from the Sale-a-bration brochure, why wait?

Have a great Saturday!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Pedal Pusher for CC&S

5 Replies

There is a new challenge starting today over at CAS Colours & Sketches and it’s a fun colour one. I had the Pedal Pushers stamp set from Sale-a-bration to play with and I decided to use that for the challenge.

Stampin' Up! Pedal Pusher and Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine

And here’s the banner for the challenge:

I started with a fairly wet wash of cucumber crush and mint macaron on a piece of watercolour paper. I love the watery look of the diluted wash with the two greens next to each other. Then I stamped the bicycle in the archival basic black and added the basket and the flowers. I coloured the bike with the Stampin’ Write mint macaron marker and the leaves of the flowers in cucumber crush. The flowers are coloured using real red and the aquapainter so that I have flowers coloured in varying strengths. I then realised that I should’ve stamped the sentiment before doing all my colouring, but fortunately I stamped it okay! It’s a sentiment from this month’s Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine.

I then matted this with a piece of basic black which is just 1/8 inch larger than the watercolour paper and mounted that onto a real red card base. I was tempted to add the butterfly from Flowering Fields but when I tested it out, realised that the butterfly was much much larger and was about the size of all the flowers put together. It would’ve looked like an alien!

I lined the envelope with the cucumber crush flower pattern from the 2015-2017 in color DSP stack and the envelope liners framelits dies. It’s yet another beautiful colour that I need to use more.

I hope that you’ll hop over to the CC&S challenge log to see the inspiration from the rest of the team and to enter a card of your own into the challenge.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 7

Leave a reply

The Paper Pumpkin February 2016 is really spawning a lot of cards for me. I’m having so much fun playing with the kit – and I’ve been saving the actual kit itself to play with my friends in a couple of days. And even so, I’ve made a lot of cards with it. Here’s a card using one of the spare embellishments and a few of the extra leaves.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine

I put the embellishment on very vanilla and added a few of the leaves to the card. I then stamped the sentiment (from the same kit’s stamp set) in pear pizzazz. Next I had to wait several days for the pearl embellishments to arrive! They turned up with the new Sale-a-bration items on Wednesday night. It’s amazing how exciting it is to get a box from Stampin’ Up! When my pearls arrived I added three of the biggest to the flower and then glued this to a pear pizzazz base. The envelope is unusual – I finally managed to put glue on the side of all the words and actually display the larger dots. The designer series paper stacks are incredibly useful for envelope lining as well as for using on cards.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 6

Leave a reply

Here’s another idea of what to do with the leftover pieces once you’ve used the orange flower from the Paper Pumpkin February 2016 kit, Hello Sunshine.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Hello Sunshine and Sunburst Sayings

I wanted a circular stamp for the middle of the flower and found the perfect shaped sentiment in Sunburst Sayings which I stamped on very vanilla in pear pizzazz. Then using a paper piercing tool to help, I picked up the orange pieces one at a time and placed them around the sentiment, working outwards. The idea was to have a kind of exploding flower look which I think worked. I mounted this onto a card base of calypso coral and then grabbed one of my precut liners, this one from the retired backgrounds DSP – there’s a new pack to replace these (and I have it) but I’m still using up the liners that I cut previously.

Tomorrow there’s a new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches – there’s still time to play with this week’s challenge – so my post will be going out later at just before 8am to coordinate with that.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 5

Leave a reply

Wow. We’re up to Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 5. And I have a couple more ideas too! This card sat on my desk for a few days whilst I thought how to complete it. In the end, I decided to allow the gold “squiggle” to be the star of the card and add extra gold to make it more lush and elegant. Let me know if you think I succeeded!

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine

This is the official embellishment that is leftover after making the kit cards (I’m planning to make mine on Friday with friends) and it’s so beautiful. I stuck it onto a piece of very vanilla and then bordered it with a piece of gold foil 1/8 inch larger. Normally I leave my layers intact because depending on the colour, you can see that there are cut outs! Not with this card, I decided to cut out a fairly large rectangle out of the gold foil since it only comes a couple of sheets at a time. I cut the thanks out using the Hello You dies in blackberry bliss and used the 2-way glue pen to adhere it. I have finally decided on the 2-way glue pen as my favourite way to add die cut words – unless you squeeze, you don’t get extra glue that oozes around your word as with the multipurpose glue and it doesn’t dry too fast like the fine tip pen. I know that this is the third day in a row for blackberry bliss, but it feels a supremely rich and elegant colour to me and perfect for this card.

Since I’d cut out a lot of the gold foil, I didn’t want to have a dent in the front of my card so I popped the layer up on stampin’ dimensionals and added it to a blackberry bliss cardbase. Lots of dimensionals so that the card doesn’t sag. For this use, I tend to cut up the dimensionals at the edge of the pack – there’s no rule that all dimensionals have to be hexagons. Use it all up!

I used a retired paper to line the envelope – I’m not sure which DSP it is, it was in my stash of precut liners and I loved the gold foil with this card.

Sue Ann – I’m so glad that you signed up as an email subscriber. I love sharing ideas and I’m happy that you are here.

See you all tomorrow,

Liz